114 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



XVII. — On Ancient Cemeteries at Rathcroghan and elsewhere in 

 Ireland (as affecting the Question or the Site oe the Cemetery 

 at Taltin). — By Samuel Ferguson, LL.D., Vice-President. 



[Bead February 26, 1872,] 



Recent speculations as to the possibility of the sepulchral cairns on the 

 Loughcrew hills, being the Taltin of the tracts published by Petrie, 

 will impart interest to the annexed sketch, in ground-plan, of the ceme- 

 tery at Ratheroghan, which, of the three sites mentioned in these tracts 

 as burial places of the Irish kiugs and nobles of the Pagan period, is 

 the one about the identification of which no question has been raised. 



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Cemetery at Bathcroghan, called Relig-na-ree ; looking west. 

 [Ord. Map Roscom., sheet 22.] 



The three sites mentioned in the tracts on the Cemeteries, and in 

 the poems on which they are founded, are first, Brugh, on the Boyne; 

 secondly, Taltin; and thirdly, this cemetery, called the Relig-na-ree, or 

 Kings 1 burial-ground, at Ratheroghan. Assuming the New Grange group 

 to be the first, and finding nothing analogous to its grand features at 

 Teltown, in Heath, which hitherto has been regarded as the second, 

 the author of "Rude Stone Monuments" concludes that Taltin must 



